Meet the team

Our core team collaborates across disciplines, sectors and nations, to raise the global environmental profile of treaties.

Group Leads

Joy Porter

Professor of Indigenous & Environmental History

Charles Prior

Professor of History, University of Birmingham

TSRG British Academy Global Professor

Gregory D. Smithers

Virginia Commonwealth University

TSRG Leverhulme Visiting Professor

Damien Lee

Toronto Metropolitan University

Project Co Leads on Historic Houses, Global Crossroads

Olwen Purdue

Professor of History, Queen’s University Belfast

Julieanne McMahon

Cultural Heritage Curator, National Trust

Emma Reisz

Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast

Annie Tindley

Professor of British & Irish Rural History, Newcastle University

Maitrii Aung-Thwin

Associate Professor, National University of Singapore

Mark McGowan

Professor of History and Celtic Studies, University of Toronto

Research & Innovation Associate (RIA) 1 (Identities)
Historic Houses, Global Crossroads

Briony Widdis
Research Fellow, Queen’s University Belfast

Project CO-Is on Brightening the Covenant Chain

Professor Dale Turner

Temagami First Nation (Anishinaabe), Department of Political Science,
University of Toronto

Professor Mark Walters

Professor of Law, Queen’s University, Canada

Professor Pekka Hämäläinen FBA

Rhodes Professor of American History, University of Oxford, Fellow of the British Academy

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Grant Development & Impact

Dr Kimberley Lustina Weir

Treatied Spaces Research Student

Montgomery Simus

(Contemporary Water Cultures in Conflict: Pebble Mine, Bristol Bay, Alaska)

TSRG Associates

TSRG Alumni


Treaties Spaces Graduate Interns, 2023-24


Treaties Spaces Graduate Interns, 2022-23

Treaties Spaces Graduate Interns, 2021-22